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About 35 “barbershop quartet” singers from Enid were guests at a party given the evening of Aug. 30 by Joe Collins of Enid and Paul Freeman, at the Freeman home in Dover. Refreshments were served, including cold watermelon. (The Times, Sept. 6, 1951)

The biggest watermelon displayed here this year was recently in the window of the H.&H. Grocery. It tips the scale at 77-1/2 pounds and Chas. Finley, the man who produced it, says he wouldn’t take five dollars for it.

Sites along the state highways where fatal accidents have occurred will be marked with signs three feet high, it was announced by Clyde Rightmire, head of the state highway office in Enid.

All from The Times, Sept. 9, 1976

Two Kingfisher youths are among 14 in the state and 295 in the nation to be recommended for American Farmer degree, highest in FFA, which is awarded at the FFA convention in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 8-12. The local candidates are James Gilmour and Wayne Karrenbrock.

One of Kingfisher County’s oldest structures was scheduled to burn to the ground Saturday morning. Wannamaker Baptist Church, which was founded in 1889, was being burned to pave the way for construction of a new church.

IT WILL TAKE ABOUT $80,000 to repair this Kingfi sher County bridge over Turkey Creek southwest of Hennessey, which burned on Labor Day. Monday, Kingfi sher County Commissioner Billy Lightle says that the new fl ooring and guard rails had just been installed.

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Kingfisher county auto license tags for 1952 will bear the new county number, 55, instead of 56 as in the past. Numbers will change in 58 of the state’s 77 counties on the basis of census figures. The new tags will have white figures on a blue background.(The Times, Sept. 6, 1951)